Game theory-based integration of scheduling with flexible and periodic maintenance planning in the permutation flowshop sequencing problem

Tayeb, Fatima Benbouzid-Si; Benatchba, Karima; Messiaid, Abdessalam

doi:10.1007/s12351-016-0261-x

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“…Gallego et al (2015) provide a new residual value EW that may lead to consumers' strategic claim behavior. Tayeb et al (2018) study the problem of integrating periodic and flexible preventive maintenance and production scheduling for permutation flowshops. Cao et al (2022) investigate the impact of free replacement on the firm's operational decisions.…”

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Optimal maintenance service outsourcing strategy considering extended warranty service

Cao

Han

et al. 2022

Manage Decis Econ

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In recent years, extended warranty (EW) services are widely provided by brand firms.Given that third-party maintenance service providers have more maintenance cost advantages than brand firms, brand firms face the challenge of whether to enter the maintenance service market. To address the above challenge and issue, we develop theoretical models. The research shows that the cost coefficient of developing maintenance service plays a critical role in the optimal maintenance service operation strategy. And the base market sizes of the EW and the charged maintenance service have significant influences on the results. Moreover, we propose conditions for a win-win outcome. | INTRODUCTIONWith the increasing price competition of products, the profit space of firms has declined. To promote product competitiveness and help consumers to avoid risk, more and more firms have begun to provide extended warranty (EW) services that can bring considerable profits (Hsiao et al., 2010;Lam & Lam, 2001). Though the handsome profit brought by EWs, firms should bear the heavy cost of operating that bothers some firms. It is noteworthy that the warranty services cost of Tesla is $123 million in 2017 (Guajardo et al., 2016). In this context, though there are still many brand firms providing after-sales services by themselves, like Huawei, OPPO, and DJI (DJI, 2021;Huawei, 2021;OPPO, 2021), an increasing number of brand firms select a low investment and low responsibility way, that is, outsourcing.Outsourcing, as an efficient strategy, is widely used by majority brand firms and helps firms to avoid the heavy operating cost and to focus on their core competencies, such as Nike and Apple who outsource their production line. Besides production outsourcing, service outsourcing is particularly common nowadays, such as logistics service, pre-sale service, and after-sales service. Outsourcing aftersale services to the third-party service providers lowers the barrier of entering into the great potential EW market for some firms without enough resources and contributes to focusing on the core businesses for some giant firms by avoiding the huge costs of establishing and operating service networks and wasting limited resources (Kurvinen et al., 2016;Yoo et al., 2021). For instance, BMW outsources its warranty services to a third-party service provider (Esmaeili et al., 2014).And JD outsources the after-sales maintenance service of their brand "JD Manufacture" to a third-party service provider, Baixiubao (ITS, 2017). It also plays an important role in avoiding competition and improving the performance of the entire supply chain by allowing professionals to handle professional issues. On a whole, there is no doubt that the outsourcing after-sale services strategy is an efficient way to reduce the operating cost for firms. Besides, it is also a good way to improve service convenience.

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Optimal maintenance service outsourcing strategy considering extended warranty service

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Manage Decis Econ

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“…The traditional workshop scheduling method based on the production enterprise itself ignores the possibility of competition and cooperation among customers. Therefore, the cooperative game theory is introduced into the field of production scheduling to address production scheduling problems [3], [4], [5].…”

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Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling Optimization Method Based on Cooperative Games

Zhang

Guo

2023

IEEE Access

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This paper proposes a cooperative games model for the permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSP) with multiple customer tasks. Here, customers create alliances through cooperation in the case of delayed and early delivery penalty constraints, and tasks in the alliance are rescheduled to seek maximum cost savings. A new β rule allocation method is proposed considering the variability in the delay penalty factor of different ordered tasks. Additionally, it is proven that the cost-saving allocation resulting from this allocation method is a core allocation of the PFSP cooperative games. A hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed to obtain the optimal scheduling of each coalition. The algorithm uses a particle swarm as the main body, maintains the advantage of fast convergence of particle swarm optimization, increases the diversity among the population, and improves the optimization performance of the algorithm. Finally, the effectiveness of the algorithm, model, and allocation method is verified via experiments. The total cost for all customers under the optimal scheduling sequence is 5595.8, compared to 6689.8 for the initial scheduling order. The proposed cooperative games model can be applied to various enterprises to better satisfy the diverse needs of the market and customers.

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Knowledge-enhanced reinforcement learning for multi-machine integrated production and maintenance scheduling

Hu,

Wang,

Tang

et al. 2023

Computers & Industrial Engineering

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Game theory-based integration of scheduling with flexible and periodic maintenance planning in the permutation flowshop sequencing problem

Cited by 12 publications

References 52 publications

Optimal maintenance service outsourcing strategy considering extended warranty service

Optimal maintenance service outsourcing strategy considering extended warranty service

Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling Optimization Method Based on Cooperative Games

Knowledge-enhanced reinforcement learning for multi-machine integrated production and maintenance scheduling

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